We
all get writer's block and blah, blah, blah. Even if you're not a writer, I'm
sure you still get writer's block when you're composing a breakup email to your
cheating boyfriend or attempting to write something sweet (and more emotional
and memorable than what your little sister is going to write) in the Mother's
Day card you bought twenty minutes before meeting your mom for brunch on her
annual holiday. *shrugs* Writer's block can pop up anywhere.

The
truth of the matter is this: We all get stuck. Whether we're writing or drawing
or building or learning...sometimes we hit a wall and it breaks our nose and
then we're bleeding all over the place and the last thing we want to do is
charge the bricks again.

But
we need to. And this is what I tell myself when I'm stuck.

Don't try this at home. I'm being figurative.

I
need to charge. Because the brick wall that just broke my nose is like
Platform 9 3/4 from Harry Potter and I am never going to get to Hogwarts if I
don't run full-speed into the wall. (Wow. I had no intention of throwing a HP reference
into this post, but whatever. It applies.)

It's
blog tour time! This is my first official blog tour so I'm flipping
excited! *jumps up and down and squeals* And guess what? Each blog in
the tour will be hosting a giveaway of Anew! That means you'll have sixteen chances to win! Yay!

I'm a sucker for pretty much any show on The CW. That being said, I've compiled a list of my favorite moments from some beloved CW shows. (Both new and old.) Here are the top five:

1) Roswell - the one where Max comes back from the future to tell Liz she has to break his heart, otherwise the world will be destroyed.

This is one of my favorite episodes--not just scenes--of all shows, ever. Future Max is super hot and all badass, so that's fun, but mostly I loved this episode because it was so freaking heart-wrenching. Future Max has Liz break up with him so he can fall in love with the girl he's destined for? So sad! I totally cried like a thirteen year-old girl.

While I was writing book two in my Archers of Avalon series (Awry) there were several days that nearly killed me. And I mean this this literally. There were days when I just wouldn't eat because I was so stressed about the storyline. And nights where I would stare at my ceiling instead of sleep because I was so worried about how book two was going to be received by readers. I was sick to my stomach, peeps.
I call this writing period of mine "The Dark Months".

During these months of darkness, I wanted to blog about all my hatred of book two and let people know that I was failing miserably as a writer and, therefore, book two was probably going to suck.

But I didn't.

Mostly because, if I was going to sit down and force myself to write something, I was going to write about Tristan. ;)

But now, two months after the release of Awry, I think I'm ready to share my thoughts on writing book two in a series because I think (and maybe some authors would agree) that book two is a very different monster than book one.